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Below is a gallery of pictures of today’s anti-Japanese protests, photographed from the west wall of Beijing University. The images were sent in by Mike (whose website can be found here if you live in China, or here if you … Continue reading →

The Beijing News reports that the Chinese Ministry of Education has declared a media blackout surrounding the national university entrance exams. [partial translation] Before the examination has completely finished, test questions and answers may not be announced in print or … Continue reading →

Oy vey! Indonesian-style fried rice in Beijing is getting out of hand. The image is from the menu of a new Western restaurant at Xingfucun. FAIR AND BALANCED LINK: If you want to see some Westerners making fools of themselves … Continue reading →

Michael, Danwei HQ had an email crash. Please contact us. – Jeremy

Signese.com is a new website, a gallery of photos of Chinese language signs in Beijing, self described as “a daily look at Chinese characters, as seen by one man and a poorly-treated camera” and “the public face of hanzi”. The … Continue reading →

From the International Herald Tribune: Swire Pacific, the owner of Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific Airways, on Wednesday ruled out relinquishing control of the airline after media reports that the mainland’s flagship carrier, Air China could be preparing a takeover bid…. … Continue reading →

Airlines in China are not kind to consumers. The industry is plagued by bad service and some of the worst food on the planet. Problems are legion and include dishonest code-sharing agreements with international airlines that mean you find can … Continue reading →

Danwei is now a media partner (i.e. we give each other free advertisements) of Youth Marketing Forum China 2005. This is what it’s all about: Youth Marketing Forum China 2005 (May 25 & 26, The Westin Shanghai), jointly organized by … Continue reading →

A few days ago, I attended a conference. Most of the participants were people who work for multinational companies, the type that marketing people in China call ‘white collars’ or bai ling (白领). There was a panel discussion. Many of … Continue reading →

In a stunning piece of spurious pseudo-science, the China News Service tells us that the Chinese are better at controlling their emotions than Western people because of the greater volume of “dehydrogenation enzymes” in their brain. Apparently, an international study … Continue reading →